The bold question-askers at What If examine the nearly impossible fault line conditions needed to trigger a magnitude 20 earthquake.

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami ...

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.

New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of ...

El Pasoans might've felt some shaking from an earthquake. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook western Texas late Friday, Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Alaska Peninsula, on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. The U.S. Tsunami ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event along a major fault zone on the ocean floor.

Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That ...